Breaking -- The human race has waived Josh Smith: 2014-15 regular season thread part 2

thx for all the love tonight guys, glad you enjoyed the story! I honestly hadnt even thought about it in years I guess? And I could've sworn I'd mentioned it before.

Anyways I'll say it again, dellevadova is lebron's Sasha vucevic.

^ THis shook me and i couldn't stop thinking about it last night

basically like every single player on their team is suspect in some way even bron

― lag∞n, Monday, March 2, 2015 1:20 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

Bron missing all his free throws esp the ones at the end that could have tied or won the game was really puzzling

nothing would give me more pleasure than to see them get bounced by washington in the first round, don't get me wrong
--polyphonic

at this rate wash isn't bouncing anybody anytime soon :/

if cleve needs a backup point they should get nate rob

just checking up and cavs have some genuinely awful players getting minutes wow

― lag∞n, Monday, March 2, 2015 1:32 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

with kyrie not playing yesterday they actually didn't have any starting-quality guards on the team, houston noticed this and made life pretty miserable on the perimeter defensively w/ariza and bev.

love on a team like the Hawks is interesting, i think horford is a pretty decent parallel for him as a guy who isn't quite good enough to drag a franchise into the conference finals but in the right situation is the jack of all trades kinda number 1 scorer who can elevate a deep group of very good role players

― J0rdan S., Monday, March 2, 2015 2:11 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah interesting comparison tho imo horford is truly an all around player where love shines more in a couple areas where he can go high volume

@WojYahooNBA: Chicago's Jimmy Butler could miss 3-4 weeks with elbow sprain, but won't need surgery, league sources tell Yahoo Sports.

thibodeau never fails

fire thibs prob

he has to learn somehow

bulls moving into contention for "most snakebit team" prize

;_;

almost as depressing is the ever-increasing possibility that the indiana fucking pacers, who aren't even an entertaining bad team, cough and sputter their way into the 8th seed

thibs and upper mgmt in Chicago apparently have a contentious relationship (may have just always been the case in Chicago regardless of the coach) so one wonders how much longer he can run his players down before action is taken.

would like to analyze injury rates across league for last few seasons to determine significance of thibs presence as an exacerbating factor.

i was also thinking about how reinsdorf has a rep for being cheap when it comes to his basketball team and how that might impact their training/medical facilities and staff.

https://vine.co/v/OQUFi091HAH

holy what

transcendent shot

Who is that, the Sixers?

yessir I believe it's isaiah canaan, recently of the houston rockets, and doing stuff like that guarantees he gets released this summer

may have just always been the case in Chicago regardless of the coach - this is true isn't it? doug collins fired after taking the bulls to their first conference finals in fifteen years, phil jackson basically pushed out a la harbaugh, and then the whispers w/ thibs going back to at least last season. when simmons put popovich in his trade value column it seemed so weird, it's not happening and it's not something there's been speculation over it possibly happening and it's not like simmons did it to work in some insight beyond 'i think gregg popovich is a good coach'. whereas thibs if you're the wizards or the magic or somewhere where you have some talent and a coaching change could have a measurable impact then it might be worth offering a late first rounder or early second rounder and chicago would probably take that offer. unlikely cuz you can just wait for a coach to resign/be fired and then get them w/o giving up a pick (plausibly you can even just start the talks and then let it leak as a means of facilitating that departure w/o tampering but having it work out for you can be tough)(this is basically what happened w/ the cleveland browns and harbaugh last year), and i can't think of any case of a coach being traded in the nba (the knicks got a pick or picks i forget for riley but that was cuz the heat blatantly tampered, it wasn't like a deal had been worked out). anyhow i remember hearing some crazy stuff the bulls management was doing in terms of having a person who decided who had to practice and how much, going over thibs head in practices, and thinking 'man wtf, dude should walk' but at the same time when i heard about butler today i did think 'holy shit thibs really is basketball dusty baker'. re: love i'm not crazy about him on the hawks and he wouldn't sign here anyway. a rumour i have heard (multiple sources!) that i know is ridiculous and not actually true but part of my brain thinks 'but what if it is' is that noah is gonna sign w/ the hawks after next season. i've actually heard it referred to as an 'open secret' (which made me laugh and go 'o rly?'). i'm not sure it's based on anything at all beyond him and horford were teammates and he'd fit. i mean it's not like they have the same agent. btw apparently al horford's agent is bj armstrong?

and i can't think of any case of a coach being traded in the nba (the knicks got a pick or picks i forget for riley but that was cuz the heat blatantly tampered, it wasn't like a deal had been worked out)

Doc rivers man

Joerger almost got traded

celtics trading rivers is lowkey one of the most triumphant personnel moves in recent nba history

they got a first round pick! lol

and then hired farmer statman

the clips then giving rivers full personnel control which he has been terrible at lends an aspect of irony

tbf he was able to bring austin rivers on board in a real coup for the clips

harden out a game for kicking lebron in the swimsuit area

weak

weak bc you wanted more or no suspension?

more kicks

http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/streetfighter/images/1/1f/Chunli-lightningkick-artwrk.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width/185?cb=20100709173528

kicks are fine, it wasn't intentionally directed at the groin, lebron was asking for it after using beverly as an exercise mat

yeah, looked pretty harmless after i bit on the inflammatory espn links

the nba has just gotten too touchy about this stuff, it was a good physical game that everyone enjoyed, no follow-ups were needed.

the league is bill laimbeerless

the magic vs. bird vhs tapes of our fathers are no longer valid

tbf any incursion into the neighborhood of genitals can be treated more severely imo i don't rly take issue w that

are there any known wearers of cups in the nba?

can't believe i forgot doc

poor doc

it's ok doc did not forget about you

I loved the doc trade so much how the hell did ainge get anything literally anything at all for a coach who was ready to just check out and retire for a few years rather than coach a rebuild, just incredible

I still like doc I just think he's a terrible rookie gm and any other gm who made his terrible moves for players who woere good in 2009 and then traded for his own son would have been fired by now

Btw I feel like we should have a dedicated thread for stories like clays epic hardaway destruction, like an ilh brushes with fame hall of fame, there have been a few other stories here and there

All I got is I was on a plane with zach zarba once though

i beat michael jordan in one on one

how much did he lose?

i beat michael jordan in one on one

Baccarat or poker?

feel like everybody is friends with somebody who is friends with somebody that won money off MJ in golf

i dunked on michael jordan then after that he was obliged to refer to me as "my big brother mr cool"